06:36 <gbruno> [github] MichaelAtOz edited issue #3827 (No details for camera debug: --debug=camera -> camera: Camera()) https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/3827

10:41 <gbruno> [github] MichaelAtOz edited issue #3785 (Wiki: Tutorial code examples contain invalid content) https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/3785

10:57 <guso7887> the 3d offset can definitely benefit from getting more robust. is there a function in openscad which can merge adjacent tringles, which have same orientation (normal vector) ?

11:16 <teepee> there might be something in the new fast-csg code, but I could not point to any specific code

14:09 <gbruno> [github] elnerd closed issue #1439 (Feature request: preserve individual shapes which overlap) https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/1439

16:51 <guso78> i found some "hybrid"  stuff  in geometry/cgal but i just found the tesselation. need the other dir

20:21 <cbmuser> teepee: ping

20:22 <teepee> heyho o/

20:25 <cbmuser> => Matrix-Chat?

20:47 <Guest88> I wonder if someone might be able to help me. I'm not real good at OpenSCAD, but I've managed to make a few simple things. The one I'd like some help with is a tray that I created using the 'tray.scad' library and a very simple 'tray([300, 200, 40], thickness=3);'. This worked great, but I'd like to add a square pad, roughly 1.5cm square, at the

20:47 <Guest88> bottom in each corner. Is this possible?

20:47 <InPhase> tutorial?

20:48 <InPhase> Guest88: Here, this is the link the bot was supposed to give you. :) https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_Tutorial

20:48 <InPhase> Guest88: So yes, it's quite possible. This tutorial walks you through some basic examples of combining things, which should illustrate to you how to do such a change to your generated tray.

20:52 <Guest88> The problem is I've looked through various articles and tutorials, and am no closer to understanding it. For reasons I can't explain, coding/programming, which is essentially the nature of OpenSCAD, has always escaped me. I'll look some more and try to give it another go.

20:53 <InPhase> If you haven't tried this tutorial give it a go. We put a lot of attention into designing that tutorial, and it was prepared by a paid GSoC worker, so it got a lot of attention. We also thought carefully about the pedagogical arrangement and accessibility of it.

20:54 <InPhase> I taught OpenSCAD to large numbers of non-programmers in a college setting before advising on the content of this tutorial.

20:55 <Guest88> Thanks, I'll take a look and see if I can make heads or tails of it.

20:58 <InPhase> You should also be able to make heads and tails with it. ;)

20:59 <InPhase> I recommend going through it actively. Get yourself an open openscad window and work along with the tutorial, making the bits as you go. You should have a nice car at the end.

21:42 <J23> !tutorial

21:43 <J23> tutorial!

21:45 <J23> Guest88  have you seen https://github.com/sofian/openscad-tray

21:51 <J23> the simplest way for you is to just  use translate([x,y])cube([1.5,1.5,4]);   to put the "squares" into the tray